RE: [CR]right lever/front brake - have your cake - Coppi

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From: "Mark Bulgier" <mark@bulgier.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]right lever/front brake - have your cake - Coppi
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:28:04 -0700


Stevan Thomas wrote [snipped]:
> I saw a picture of Coppi in action
> The front brake is clearly on the right
> [...] it was apparently good enough for Coppi and
> Merckx.

I never thought about which side Eddy "dressed" on before, but I went through my old racing photos, and the only pix of Eddy where you could tell, he was left-front. Did he employ both during his career?

Here's a Merckx left-front: http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/RacingPics/CANNIBAL.jpg

Here's a Bartali left-front: http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/RacingPics/Bartali2.jpg

Here's a Coppi right-front: http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/RacingPics/Coppi.jpg

Mark Bulgier
Seattle, Wa
USA